We are very proud to present our first video interview here at Metal Storm! We caught up with Mayhem's legendary vocalist Attila Csihar at Hellfest Open Air earlier this year and talked to him about the future of Mayhem, Attila's approach to music and about the metal experience in general.

Attila assured us that Blasphemer's departure, while a setback, will also be a new chapter for Mayhem. "Mayhem is a name and its actually a very strong name in my eyes. I don't think this will be the end of the name". He also revealed to us some details about his various non-Mayhem projects, including Sunn 0))), Grave Temple and his collaboration with Jarboe.

We also talked about Attila's approach and vision for music. "I'm into nature, the Ancients - ancient civilizations, ancient ruins and philosophies and of course, spiritual dimensions, which do not belong to any religions" "For us, its about representing our freedom", he continues. "You play for the people, and the music manifests itself. People listen to it (...) and then it starts to go back and forth."

What does Mayhem offer the people then? "Well, I like to offer them freedom. Freedom to think what they like about the show and freedom to release all the pressure (...) and suppressions inside, to release it together and 'splash' it into the cosmos."

"If you watch the news, what the fuck is that? What kind of promotion is that? All the negative things - all the drugs, all the crime and all the bullshit. So what do you expect from the people? Of course they listen to Mayhem!"

"When I meet fans after the shows, they are very happy. They are released."

For much more from Attila, including his opinions on society, the Internet, Hellfest Open Air and more, please press on the images below to view each part of the interview. We hope you will enjoy this new addition to Metal Storm.

Posted on 11.09.2008 byjupitreas
With Metal Storm since 2002, jupitreas has been subjecting the masses to his reviews for quite a while now. He lives in Warsaw, Poland, where he does his best to avoid prosecution for being so cool.

OK, this was great.. I'm also waiting for Barry vs Benighted to see them, I've never read o seen any Benighted interview.

Haha yes, I am waiting for the videos too - we have over twenty interviews from the festival, they should hopefully be coming on in the near future. I did six of them I think.. but this obviously is letting you all see what us that run the site look/sound like as well!! Haha!!

This was good to see, I wish I had been back there when they were doing this. Mayhem were one of the best of the festival!

I agree with you. There are still some things that we need to work on. An external production company is editing the videos for us and the communication that we have with them is not ideal at the moment. Don't worry though, we are going to improve.

Funny part is when Attila Csihar was talking about Sunn o)))'s first show that the audience were 7 people, Juptreas said "You can go down and ask how do you like it?"

OK, this was great.. I'm also waiting for Barry vs Benighted to see them, I've never read o seen any Benighted interview.

Same here dude, i'm hoping for a Benighted video interview. Anyways good interview here, Attila seems like a very awesome guy to talk to, he has some interesting points.

Stigma - 13.09.2008 at 19:17

A very interesting interview, and a great add for MS. There's some sound problems however, I had to turn my phones to max. But it's only natural that there's something to develop in the first interviews.

WoW what a interwiew, realy good job, and now I cans ay I had seen 2 members of site more how in pics, I hear them voices hehhehe

Good interwiew and its nice to hear from not english band, (dont ask what I mean) , quate interesting, im looking forvard for next one , but - are taht you can not qoute so easy what people say, but i dont care , I wanna see next interwiew

well..ever heard of mozilla firefox? do i have to use IE to be able to watch these?

I use Mozilla Firefox but I have no problem with the video...

hmm my codecs are up to date too,wonder what's the problem.anyway thanks for informing.

Maybe Turkey is blocking YouTube again?

Well, maybe it's the problem of blocking the site... If yes, it depends on the blocking management. For example in Iran www.youtube.com is filtered but youtube.com with no www is free..
So you can try this one: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=jkjQJ97vydc (This is part one)

well..ever heard of mozilla firefox? do i have to use IE to be able to watch these?

I use Mozilla Firefox but I have no problem with the video...

hmm my codecs are up to date too,wonder what's the problem.anyway thanks for informing.

Maybe Turkey is blocking YouTube again?

Well, maybe it's the problem of blocking the site... If yes, it depends on the blocking management. For example in Iran www.youtube.com is filtered but youtube.com with no www is free..
So you can try this one: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=jkjQJ97vydc (This is part one)